Submission to the "Contemporary Bindings of Private Press Books Touring Exhibition 2014-15"

A new binding for submission to the "Contemporary Bindings of Private Press Books Touring Exhibition 2014-15".  "Tonge's Travels" was published by The Old School Press in Bath and features watercolour illustrations by John Watts.   The original was a manuscript travel diary from 1857 recording Mr. George Tonge's boat trip through the Mediterranean.     I used my paste papers cut into strips and onlaid onto the full calf binding to suggest both water and the notion of a hand-written document.  I added a couple of Moleskine style touches including a pocket in the back which I supplied with paste paper "postcards" of sights along the route, and a foredge strap, here depicted lying in front of the open book. The show opens at St Bride's Church, Fleet St., London on May 14 of this year.  See you at the opening!